Agency Improvement Activities • Determine what should move forward to the May 20 agency improvement meeting
  1. Progress Report • Submitted on May 1, 2015 • THANK YOU for your review and input! Now awaiting feedback.
  2. Review Improvement Plan What activities do we need to address at the May 20 agency improvement meeting? (LT Member/Facilitator)
    • Goal 1 - Initiate a comprehensive evaluation process for all personnel, certificated and classified. (2.6)
    • Goal 2 - Develop and initiate an evaluation process of programs and services to determine the impact on student and adult learning, cost-benefit analysis, and the overall effectiveness of the agency. (5.1)
      • 2.2.b Agency-wide survey to be completed by workshop participants to determine long-term impact on classroom instruction, student engagement, and student learning
      • 2.2.c Technology integration specialists use the data generated from surveys to improve technology implementation by teachers in the classroom, student engagement, and student learning
      • 2.3.a Communicate with school districts regarding monthly PLC meeting involving ESU personnel • Dennis (August)
        • Schedule PLC time during agency improvement meetings; balance of meetings to occur onsite
      • 2.3.b Establish agency PLC groups
        • Core services PLC has been formed • What are the other PLC groups?All Staff should be included in at least one PLC (including administrative personnel)
      • 2.3.c Articulate PLC meeting agenda format • PLC Handbook resource (Jeff)
        • PLC Nonnegotiables
          • meet regularly (monthly) • meeting norms • data • SMART Goal • sharing
      • 2.4.b Determine cost of programs and services • Dennis (summer)
      • 2.4.c Determine projected cost of programs and services and cost comparison • Dennis (summer)
    • Goal 3 - Collect and analyze trend data to determine the effectiveness of professional development opportunities, technology, support, and programs designed to improve student engagement and learning. (5.2)
      • 3.1.b Develop the needed collection tools for each criterion
        • Question: what is our plan for using this information to impact student engagement and learning?
  3. Department Improvement Goals • Status Report
  4. Department Review • What actions from the Feb 20 2015 staff meeting were identified? What are the priorities?
  5. Agency Vision (from Aug 2014): ESU #17 will transform current educational practices to revive a passion for learning by empowering students through innovative, individualized, and inquiry based learning. • What indicators will show that we are making progress toward this vision?

Discussion/Sharing • What additional topics should be included at the May 20 agency improvement meeting?
  • 2015-2016 ESU Calendar
    • Dates of agency improvement meetings: Fri Aug 7, Wed Nov 25, Thu May 19
    • Dates of leadership team meetings (4): Aug, Oct/Nov, Jan/Feb, May
  • Dennis: school district communication received
  • Jeff: online Absence Report Receipt

Training • What training opportunities would be beneficial to provide to staff on May 25? Who would like to facilitate?
  • FastPass (Ben)?
  • Other?




Meeting Notes
Final Day May 2015:
-Discussion about whole staff participating in APL training
-Results of Bryte Bytes Survey (1 hour)
-Mention dress attire (form a committee)(Dennis will bring it up and mention the committee.)
-Talk about the All Staff Meeting days (specifically the day before Thanksgiving)
-Jan usually has some things to share
-Whole staff will take Evaluation Survey. Mention that evaluators will not see the results. The Leadership team members that are not evaluators will compile the data and share with evaluators. (Becky will present/Nicole will take notes)
-Link surveys from Patty to agenda. Surveys would be given each semester starting next semester. (Patty/Tech staff will share with entire staff)
-Does Special Education need their own survey?
-Set up actual PLC's (Early childhood/school age as possible groups. The SPED staff will talk about how best to divide into PLC's) Nicole
- Just give status report of department goals
-New teacher support (Core services will talk about while SPED talking about PLC's)
5. - Activity around vision statement. List of 20 ways to facilitate this. Break into table groups.

Order of meeting:
1)9:00 Google Training
2)10:00 Vision Statement
3)SPED PLC arrangement/Core Services New Teacher induction
4) Evaluation Survey

DENNIS IS PAYING FOR LUNCH at Pizza Hut



August 2015 Meeting:
-Set PLC days for whole year. Each group will set the dates. Duration of meetings will be determined (1 Hour)
-Ben will present LastPass (1 hour at most)
-Co-chairs for Leadership Team